Fellow Birders, Despite the inclement weather, and some obligations in the after, I was able to get out to a couple of Queens County Parks this morning. I first visited Forest Pond Park, and when thunder coulds started to come in I beat a hasty retreat, and was able to spend a couple of hours at the east side of Kissena Park later in the morning. Avian activity was much less than yesterday's, in both variety and sheer numbers, and many warblers were treetopping, and required picking up their songs and then working hard. I was pleasantly surprised to find that by the afternoon I had seen 18 species of warblers (nothing of note among other families), and 5 of them were FOS for me. The highlights: in the vicinity of the water hole, Forest Park-- Cape May, Bay-breasted, Blackburnian, and Blackpoll Warblers. At Kissena Park, between 164th St. and the Velodrome: Wilson's, Canada, and Worm-eating Warblers. Not bad for a short and rainy day! Happy Birding,
Ken Allaire El Valle de Anton, Panama skypename: kenallaire -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
